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amendment summary	A well regulated militia, Being necessary to security of a free state; The right of the people to keep and bear arms, Shall not be infringed.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms, Shall not be infringed.	john McCain scored an A (95.4%) for his support of your right to protect yourself and your family. He also received an official endorsement from the NRA, which is no easy task. . [Obama was a member of the Illinois State Legislature when many of these issues went to vote, and he voted to disarm law abiding residents of Chicago and surrounding suburbs every single time.]
Date Proposed:	9/25/1789.
Date Ratified:	12/15/1791 in 811 days.
This amendment is currently alive	It is still alive.
Court cases about this ame	- On July 3, 2008, the Third Circuit upheld, against a Second Amendment challenge, a federal law prohibiting possession of firearms with obliterated serial numbers.[117] United States v. Walters - On July 15, 2008, the Third Circuit upheld, against a Second Amendment challenge, a federal law that prohibits possession of firearms within 1,000 feet of a school zone and so denied a request to dismiss an indictment of Rupert Walters.[118] McDonald v. Chicago - In this case, on December 18, 2008, a United States district court judge upheld a Chicago, Illinois gun ban. A request for appeal was filed with the Seventh Circuit and is presently pending, though, according to Chris Cox of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, the Seventh Circuit "ruled adversely in 1982."[119] Law Department spokeswoman Jennifer Hoyle speculated that this case will ultimately be settled in the Supreme Court of the United States.[120]

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1. what year was this amendment proposed?

2. what year was this amendment ratified?

3. Is this amendment still alive?

4. The right of the people to keep and bear arms, Shall?

5. the right of people to keep?

because, after all, it’s really dangerous out there.

Will the conservative-leaning Supreme Court read the

Second Amendment’s language the way Madison read it,

affirming a 1939 Court ruling that the Amendment refers

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to weapons for use in military

The Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution

was originally the fourth of the amendments that James

Madison drafted:

But what exactly does it mean?

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security

of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,

shall not be infringed.

Opponents and supporters of gun control have argued about

•The punctuation of the Second Amendment

•Its grammatical structure

•And the meaning of words.

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answers to wiki;
1. 9/25/1789
2. 12/15/1791
3. yes it is still alive
4. not be infringed
5. and bear arms, Shall not be infringed